Friday, May 25, 2012

has crashed last Sunday and you can take it for a good or a bad sign, but fact is, that too many avis (80) stressed the capacity of this new sim dedicated to the art(s), which is from now officially open for the public. A four hours program introduced the guests to the variety and richness of artistic options on the sim. It started with the opening of Moe Sandalwoods exhibition "reflected rorschach" in the UnderWaterGallery, accompanied by a Theremin concert by Asmita Duranjaya, the curator and one of the sim based artists beside ChapTer Kronfeld and Migina Miklos. Asmita showed her own new installation after this opening. It is called "Destruction" and is a puzzle at the same time with a solution word, that guides to a task for a new contest.

Next step was to take an artwalk through ChapTer Kronfelds gallery.

One of the highlights of the event was the winners announcement ceremony for the contest "Virtual Minimalism". The first three winners, who got 3000, 2000 and 1000 LL, were Gleman Jun with his work "Creatures", Harter Fall with "Lines and Frames" and Professor Bimbogami with "Pervasive Space":

The jury decided to show the first 16 voting winners for another month on the rooftop of the Space 4 Art Gallery.

The event continued with a beach party and the fabulous DJane Miriam Evanier, who tried also to accompany the cheerleader group of Steffy Lavender, who increased the lag a bit with its animations, leading to a one hour sim crash.

But last not least the planned program has been continued with an atmospheric English poetry reading of the German author Lilia Artis:

At the end of the eventful hours a magic firework illuminated the sky over Space 4 Art.

Thanks to all participants and the sponsors Migina and ChapTer for helping to make this event a success.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

The following program,organised by curator and artist Asmita Duranjaya will start at 11am SLT and end at 3pm SLT.

There will be new art exhibitions, concerts and poetry readings, a dance show and a beach party with DJane.

All the 24 artists of the Space 4 Art Gallery have updated their gallery spots and will be around for meet'n'greet. The 33 pieces of the contest Virtual Minimalism on the rooftop are presented the last time and the winners announcement will be one highlight of the opening. ChapTer Kronfeld and Asmita Duranjaya have also updated their galleries and created new shows for the opening as well as Migina Miklos, the third artist on the sim, who is a master of landscaping and specialised in building large cave systems with some surprises for the visitor. All together the interested guest can enjoy a lot of awesome spots and events and the detailed program shows the variety of this four hours event:

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Why teleport through magic doors at an art
exhibition? Because we can! Librarium
Arboris reveals an artist who, with open arms, shares her delight in this
world’s special magic. Zoom out. Zoom in.
Fly. Play. Serious and honest art withstands our close
study and even our celebration in the experience. Let’s enter.

From one leafy sphere to the next, we travel an
enormous tree, through themes that have compelled the artist: fashion to abstraction, color to shape . . .
each linked with an artbook and an RL artist quotation. These quotations are key to solving the
puzzle. For an artist, writer, and
educator who also designs books, the integration of books in this installation
and elsewhere comes naturally. Here,
the lushly textured books guide, inform and entertain. Turn off the stream and enable media for
your tour, because Asmita’s art also communicates with sound and action.

What to wear? Dozens of self-portrait cutouts in couture
clothing populate the fashion section of the tree. Central to the cutouts, a seamstress’ torso topped by a shopping
bag spins while dollar bills and coins swirl around it. Chick-ching! The similarity of these figures to paper dolls strikes this
viewer as both amusing and polemical.
Asmita conveys the limitations of a virtual medium and examines the
economic engines that pervade our world.
The presence of a sewing machine and the mechanical sounds suggest
industry.

Abstract art. The nearly tactile nature of the textures
lining this globe balances the abstraction of shapes and colors. Stalactites swing and flex from the globe’s
domed ceiling like strands of an enormous paintbrush, loaded thick with paints.

Color.
Thick, tooth-like stalagmites encircle a blue pool. Piercing colors demonstrate compatibility of
the additive RGB model with the mechanics of the human eye. Sensitive to these primary colors, the eye
also uses light to perceive and interpret reality (and virtuality), so here onscreen
art has an advantage over real paintings.

“I paint with
shapes,” each disembodied voice repeats. Are these the voices of the artist and her
colleagues? No, they are computer
generated, but clearly this artist endorses the statement. The words, including “MEGAPRIM,” celebrate
the art of building, in neon colors.

The Solution Room. We don’t want to give away the solution,
but the prize merits participation, and the room, itself, surprises. Chances are that it also surprised the
artist. This can happen—in fact, it
must happen. The behavior of physical
objects, themselves, surprises. With a
little luck, you may recognize that your participation makes an important
contribution to the art, itself.

This is serious, important work, from an artist who
values friendship and collaboration.
Congratulations to Asmita Duranjaya and to Pirats galerie owners and
curators. We all appreciate the work
you do. Thanks for sharing it, and in
such a disarming way! □